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  1. Bug #520712
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Comment 1 for bug 520712

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Reinhard Tartler (siretart) wrote : Re: [Bug 520712] [NEW] mplayer crashes with illegal instruction on a non-altivec enabled processor

does mplayer profit from altivec?

ffmpeg does e.g. install a non-altivec version to /usr/lib, and an
altivec enabled version to /usr/lib/altivec. Mplayer itself should do
similar, i.e., the /usr/bin/mplayer binary without altivec and move all
code that benefit from altivec to shared libraries in /usr/lib{,/altivec}

patches for that are indeed welcome!

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Gruesse/greetings,
Reinhard Tartler, KeyID 945348A4